Innovative Metagenomics Study Maps Out Antibiotic Resistance Genes from Hospital Environment Microbiomes

  22 June 2020

Nature Medicine published a study by the Agency for Science, Technology and Research’s (A*STAR) Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS), on 8 June 2020, providing the first extensive genomic mapping of microbiomes and antibiotic resistance genes in a tertiary hospital in Singapore.

This paper is a potentially ground-breaking analysis, enlisting the emerging technology of metagenomics to provide a detailed survey useful in the increasingly important worldwide battle against antimicrobial resistance, and represents a collaboration between GIS, Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH), National Centre for Infectious Diseases (NCID), National University Hospital (NUH), Singapore General Hospital (SGH), Weill Cornell Medicine, and the MetaSUB Consortium.

This study maps out, for the first time, the diversity and range of bacteria and antibiotic resistant genes found in hospitals. In this study, environmental samples were collected from different sites in a hospital, cultures were enriched to find antibiotic resistant bacteria, and the sequences were compared to databases of previously published sequences from bacteria found in hospital environments as well as patients.

 

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Author(s): Genome Institute of Singapore
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